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Letters .Patent No. 78,002, datcZ'May 1 9, 1868'.4

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Be it known that L'GEORGE W. MYERS, of Hartlton, Union county, State ofIennSyIvania,` haveinvented an Improved Knife for Cutting the Hides oit' -of Cattle; andII do hereby declare the following-'to be un exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of` reference `marked thereon, making a Ipart of this specification, in whichl Figure 1 represents a perspective view. of the knife.-

Figure 2 a cross-section. l

The nature of my invention consists `in the ne-.bladed knife, tapering to a.v point, with an adjustable simi,- lar blade on the one side, operating on the other blade by lscrew-heads moving in a slots This outside blade is rounding on the edges, and lthis rounding edge is for the purpose of preventing the sharp edge of the knife from cutting the hide, as many of the most valuable hides are injured by cutting, thereby involving serious loss to tanners.

A represents the blade of the knife, B the handle, C the additional blade or guard, attached to the side of the blade of the knife. This blade is adjustable bytwo slots, D D, in which screw-heads,.E E, attached to the4 knife-blade, operate in the slots, and by which the outside'blade C is moved hacker forward from thas-harp edge of the knife-blade, so as to regulatev the depth ofthe cutting, and prevent the sharp edge froni .cutting I the hide.

I am aware that a razor with aguard attached has been used, butl this I do not claim; but` What I claim as my invention, `and desire to secure by Letters Patenisf The combination and construction ofthe guard C,'that .is movable and adjustable with the knife-blade as herein described, and for the purposes set forth. g

e GEO. W.; MYERS.

Witnesses:

J. FRANKLIN Ramsar, EDM. F. BROWN. 

